From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 21 16:23:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kineo.bowdoin.edu (kineo.bowdoin.edu [139.140.14.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5391637B403 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 16:23:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcowger@bowdoin.edu) Received: from bowdoin.edu ([139.140.133.82]) by kineo.bowdoin.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGUJMY00.D1G; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:23:22 -0400 Message-ID: <3B5A0F38.7050503@bowdoin.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:24:40 -0400 From: "Matthew K. Cowger" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Derek C." , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dns References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010721160135.00b1bcb0@mail.blarg.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe what you are looking for is something called Round Robin DNS. It is used as a load balancing technique. I dont really know how to do it, but searching for Round Robin DNS should point you in the right direction.. Derek C. wrote: > I think he was asking how to set it up in his DNS server (run nslookup > yahoo.com and you'll see what I mean)... > > In that case, I think he should be a bit more specific about his > nameserver (e.g name/version, etc...) > > Derek > > At 05:57 PM 7/21/2001, Sperber wrote: > >> On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, andy t wrote: >> >> > how can i have to 2 ips resolve from one domain name ? >> > >> > such as yahoo.com: >> > >> > # host yahoo.com >> > yahoo.com has address 216.115.108.245 >> > yahoo.com has address 216.115.108.243 >> > >> > Thank you. >> > >> >> Some hosts have several ips because of backup-servers or servers >> which are >> mirrors... >> Rather useful for bigger companies... (or search engines like yahoo) >> >> Sperber >> >> ----------------------------* signature *----------------------------- >> | _ | >> | ~\\_ | >> | \\\\ | >> | ... .--. . .-. -... . .-. `\\\\\ | >> | |\\\\\ | >> | \\\\\|__.--~~\ | >> | _--~ / | >> | /~ ////// _-~~~~' | >> | sperber@w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at ('-//////-// | >> | http://sperber.cjb.net //////(((-) | >> | /////" | >> | _///" | >> | ~ | >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message